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Charles Dickens in Love
- By: Robert Garnett
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall10
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Performance9
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Using hundreds of primary sources, Charles Dickens in Love narrates the story of the most intense romances of Charles Dickens’ life and shows how his novels both testify to his own strongest affections and serve as memorials to the young women he loved all too well, if not always wisely. Charles Dickens has no rival as the most fertile creative imagination since William Shakespeare, and no one influenced his imagination more powerfully than these three women, his muses and teachers in the school of love.
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Fascinating Dickens’ Details
- By cyclingcarol on 19-10-24
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Charles Dickens in Love
- Narrated by: Steven Crossley
- Length: 15 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 08-10-13
- Language: English
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- By: Daisy Dunn
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall14
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Performance12
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Story12
After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers arrived with pictures of the university fully formed in their heads and women finally won the right to earn degrees. Freedom meant reading beneath the spires and punting down the river with champagne picnics. But all was not quite as it seemed. Boys fresh from school settled into lecture rooms alongside men who had returned from the trenches with the beginnings of shellshock.
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Fascinating history destroyed by narration
- By Cassandra on 03-06-22
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Not Far from Brideshead
- Oxford Between the Wars
- Narrated by: Daisy Dunn, Mike Grady
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 31-03-22
- Language: English
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- By: Zadie Smith
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall186
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Performance141
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Story140
Brought to you by Penguin. Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of essays on the experience of lockdown, by one of the most clear-sighted and essential writers of our time From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There...
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Brilliant essays
- By Betty on 14-03-21
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Intimations
- Six Essays
- Narrated by: Zadie Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 51 mins
- Release date: 28-07-20
- Language: English
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Manifesto
- By: Bernardine Evaristo
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall142
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Performance118
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Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history. Manifesto is Bernardine Evaristo's intimate and inspirational no-holds-barred account of how she did it, refusing to let any barriers stand in her way.
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Inspirational
- By Rashida on 24-11-21
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Manifesto
- Narrated by: Bernardine Evaristo
- Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 07-10-21
- Language: English
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Running in the Family
- By: Michael Ondaatje
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall24
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Performance21
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Story21
In the late 1970s Ondaatje returned to his native island of Sri Lanka. As he records his journey through the drug-like heat and intoxicating fragrances of that "pendant off the ear of India", Ondaatje simultaneously retraces the baroque mythology of his Dutch-Ceylonese family. An inspired travel narrative and family memoir by an exceptional writer.
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Evocative, sad and elusive search for Family
- By Earnest on 30-07-18
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Running in the Family
- Narrated by: Michael Ondaatje
- Length: 4 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 28-11-17
- Language: English
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- By: James Boswell
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 54 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4
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Performance3
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James Boswell forever changed the genre of biography when he painstakingly transformed a scholarly profusion of detail into a perceptive, lifelike portrait of Dr. Samuel Johnson. James Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson reveals a man of outsized appetites and private vulnerabilities and is the source of much of what we know about one of the towering figures of English literature.
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Excellent
- By Antony on 30-11-17
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The Life of Samuel Johnson
- Narrated by: Bernard Mayes
- Length: 54 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 26-06-17
- Language: English
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
- The Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
- By: Rebecca Romney
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall7
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Performance6
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When rare books dealer Rebecca Romney found an emerald clothbound edition of Evelina by Frances Burney, she was happy to discover that she'd stumbled across a novel by one of Jane Austen's favourite authors. Inspired by the connection between the two writers, she returned to Austen's books with a new lens, picking out clues sprinkled throughout her works that pointed to the writers she had admired.
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Interesting
- By cheryl gager on 11-05-26
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Jane Austen's Bookshelf
- The Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend
- Narrated by: Julia Winwood
- Length: 13 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 04-09-25
- Language: English
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Getting Away with Murder
- My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
- By: Lynda La Plante
- Narrated by: Ann Mitchell, Carol Cleveland, Dawn French, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall33
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Performance32
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Story32
The hilarious and moving tell-all memoir from the UK's queen of crime drama. This edition includes content exclusive to the audiobook: alongside Lynda, you will hear from close friends, family and stars she's worked with during her long career, including Dame Helen Mirren, Simon Callow, Victoria...
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Incredible life story
- By SilverGirl78 on 25-04-25
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Getting Away with Murder
- My Unexpected Life on Page, Stage and Screen
- Narrated by: Ann Mitchell, Carol Cleveland, Dawn French, GIll Titchmarsh, Helen Mirren, Lynda La Plante, Simon Callow, Victoria Smurfit
- Length: 14 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 12-09-24
- Language: English
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How to End a Story
- Diaries 1995-1998
- By: Helen Garner
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall19
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Performance19
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Story19
Living with a powerfully ambitious writer who is consumed by his work, and trying to find a place for her own spirit to thrive, she rails against the confines. At the same time, she is desperate to find the truth in their relationship—and the truth of her own self.
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Loved this
- By london lido lover on 05-05-25
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How to End a Story
- Diaries 1995-1998
- Narrated by: Helen Garner
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 01-04-22
- Language: English
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Decca
- The Letters of Jessica Mitford
- By: Jessica Mitford
- Narrated by: Alistair Petrie, Lucy Scott
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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'Enthralling and gloriously honest' SUNDAY TIMES The captivating letters by the most idiosyncratic, witty and irrepressible of the notorious Mitford sisters. Here's what readers are saying: 'It is both laugh-out-loud funny and enthralling' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A wonderful record of a remarkable...
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Decca
- The Letters of Jessica Mitford
- Narrated by: Alistair Petrie, Lucy Scott
- Length: 30 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 29-01-26
- Language: English
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Les années
- By: Annie Ernaux
- Narrated by: Marina Moncade
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall20
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Performance19
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Au travers de photos et de souvenirs laissés par les événements, les mots et les choses, Annie Ernaux nous fait ressentir le passage des années, de l'après-guerre à aujourd'hui. En même temps, elle inscrit l'existence dans une forme nouvelle d'autobiographie, impersonnelle et collective. Marina Moncade est la voix sensible et délicate d'Annie Ernaux qui regarde en elle-même pour retrouver le monde, la mémoire et l'imaginaire des jours passés.
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J’ai adoré ce livre
- By Sandra on 04-06-24
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Les années
- Narrated by: Marina Moncade
- Length: 6 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 22-07-15
- Language: French
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Somewhere Towards the End
- By: Diana Athill
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall49
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Performance29
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What is it like to be old? Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. In Somewhere Towards the End she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This is a lively narrative of events, lovers and friendships: the people and experiences that have taight her to regret very little, to resist despondency and to question the beliefs and customs of her own generation.
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An interesting perspective of ageing and death.
- By Alison St Pierre on 18-09-12
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Somewhere Towards the End
- Narrated by: Claire Bloom
- Length: 4 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 29-04-09
- Language: English
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- By: Agatha Christie
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5
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Performance5
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Unpublished for 90 years, Agatha Christie’s extensive and evocative letters from her year-long round-the-world trip to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and America as part of the British trade mission for the famous 1924 Empire Exhibition. In 1922 Agatha Christie set sail on a...
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The Grand Tour
- Letters from the British Empire Expedition 1922
- Narrated by: Fenella Woolgar
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 23-06-22
- Language: English
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Mad World
- Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
- By: Paula Byrne
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall48
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Performance40
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A terrifically engaging and original biography about one of England’s greatest novelists, and the glamorous, eccentric, debauched and ultimately tragic family that provided him with the most significant friendships of his life and inspired his masterpiece, “Brideshead Revisited”. Evelyn...
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Engrossing for fans of Waugh
- By Paul Jesson on 08-04-23
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Mad World
- Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead
- Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
- Length: 15 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 19-08-21
- Language: English
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
- By: A. N. Wilson
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall16
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Performance11
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Filled with the twists, pathos and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist's extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer's death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, A.N. Wilson seeks to understand Dickens' creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens's fiction drew from his own experiences. Dickens knew first-hand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage.
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Very enjoyable
- By Sefton on 26-09-20
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The Mystery of Charles Dickens
- Narrated by: Mark Meadows
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 01-08-20
- Language: English
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Levels of Life
- By: Julian Barnes
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall246
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Performance220
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'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.
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The tropics of grief
- By Paul S. Turner on 20-07-14
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Levels of Life
- Narrated by: Julian Barnes
- Length: 3 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 04-04-13
- Language: English
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- By: Francesca Wade
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall11
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Performance11
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'Think of the Bible and Homer, think of Shakespeare and think of me,' wrote Gertrude Stein in 1936. Admirers called her a genius, sceptics a charlatan: she remains one of the most confounding—and contested—writers of the twentieth century. In this literary detective story, Francesca Wade delves into the creation of the Stein myth.
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Fascinating and meticulously researched
- By Amazon Customer on 09-08-25
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Gertrude Stein
- An Afterlife
- Narrated by: Francesca Wade
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 20-05-25
- Language: English
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Pour Me
- A Life
- By: A. A. Gill
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall280
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Performance241
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Story242
A. A. Gill's memoir begins in the dark of a dormitory with six strangers. He is an alcoholic, dying in the last-chance saloon - driven to dry out, not out of a desire to change but mainly through weariness. He tells the truth - as far as he can remember it - about drinking and about what it is like to be drunk. Pour Me is about the blackouts, the collapse, the despair. Lacerating, unflinching, uplifting, it is a classic about drunken abandon. Read by Dougray Scott.
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'Every long, hallowed word'
- By Rachel Redford on 15-08-17
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Pour Me
- A Life
- Narrated by: Dougray Scott
- Length: 6 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 27-07-17
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: George Orwell
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall89
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Performance75
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it'. Thus wrote Orwell following his experiences as a militiaman in the Spanish Civil War...
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A telling work of history
- By Banjoman on 07-09-21
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Homage to Catalonia
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: Rory Alexander
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
- By: Mario Puzo
- Narrated by: John Kenneth
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall31
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Performance28
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Lucia Santa has traveled 3,000 miles of dark ocean, from the mountain farms of Italy to the streets of New York, hoping for a better life. Instead, she finds herself in Hell's Kitchen, in a bad marriage, raising six children on her own. As Lucia struggles to hold her family together, her daughter confronts the adult world of work and romance while her eldest son is drawn into the Mafia. Meanwhile, her youngest son aspires to American pursuits she cannot understand.
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Definitely Mario Puzos best work
- By Anonymous on 10-08-22
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The Fortunate Pilgrim
- Narrated by: John Kenneth
- Length: 9 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 22-09-09
- Language: English
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